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145 Stature quotes by 129 unique authors

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to… — Michael Newdow
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights,… — Dick Gregory
A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. — Eugene Delacroix
What are the proper grounds for joy? Is it circumstance which will determine the stature of my spirit? Ah, no. It is choice. It is… — Mary Anne Radmacher
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to… — Henry Ward Beecher
For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature. — William Sloane Coffin
Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not.… — Montel Williams
It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command. — Ned Beatty
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the… — Magnus Carlsen
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for… — Norman Finkelstein
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is… — Michel de Montaigne
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have… — Albert Schweitzer
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith
...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling… — Kobe Bryant
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want… — Walt Disney
Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light… — John Muir
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er… — William Wordsworth
No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected. — Nikita Khrushchev
I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama. — Al Green
Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. — Germaine Greer
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been… — Edna Ferber

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